| (ASVC) |
Automatic Train Route Setting |
| (BESIP) |
Road Traffic Safety Department - an integral part of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic |
| (CDP) |
Central (Rail) Traffic Control Service |
| (DC) |
Surveillance centre |
| (DO PČR) |
Motorway Department of the Police of the Czech Republic |
| (DOZ) |
Interlocking System Remote Control |
| (DŘD) |
Decree No. 173/1995 Coll., issuing Railway Transport Regulations, as amended |
| (GTN) |
Graphical and Technological Layer |
| (HDŘÚ) |
Main Traffic Control Centre in Prague |
| (HZS ČR) |
Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic |
| (IDOS) |
Multimodal Journey Planner |
| (JDVM) |
Unified Transport Vector Map |
| (JSDI) |
Integrated Traffic Information System of the Czech Republic |
| (KOPIS) |
Regional Operations and Information Centre of Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic |
| (KR-ITS) |
Coordination Council of the Minister of Transport for Intelligent Transport Systems |
| (LAVDIS) |
Elbe-Vltava Waterway Traffic Information System |
| (LRIT) |
Long-Range Identification and Tracking (of ships) |
| (MHD) |
Urban Public Transport (consists mainly of fleet of underground, trams, suburban trains, buses, trolley buses and less often funiculars and boats or ferry) |
| (MU) |
Railway Accident or Road Traffic Collision |
| (NDIC) |
National Traffic Information and Management Centre |
| (NIPI) |
National Infrastructure for Spatial Information |
| (ODIS) |
Integrated Public Transport System of the Moravian-Silesian Region |
| (OLDA) |
Online Traffic Update Site (application of the Police of the Czech Republic providing information about traffic situation in the CR) |
| (OOSPO) |
Person/people with Reduced Mobility or Orientation |
| (PIT) |
Variable Information Panels |
| (PMD) |
Shunting Movement Between Railway Stations or Passing Loops |
| (PP) |
Implementing Rule |
| (PZZ) |
Level Crossing Safety Installation |
| (ŘLP ČR) |
Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic |
| (ŘSD ČR) |
Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic |
| (ŘSDP PP) |
Directorate of the Traffic Police Service of Czech Police Presidium |
| (ŘVC ČR) |
Directorate of Waterways of the Czech Republic |
| (SFDI) |
State Fund for Transport Infrastructure |
| (SONS) |
Czech Blind United (organization for visually impaired people in the Czech Republic) |
| (SPS) |
State Navigation Administration |
| (SSÚD) |
Motorway Management and Maintenance Centre |
| (SSÚRS) |
Expressway Management and Maintenance Centre |
| (SSZ) |
(Road) Traffic Control Signals |
| (SÚS) |
Road Administration and Maintenance |
| (SŽDC) |
Railway Infrastructure Administration, state-owned organization |
| (SZZ) |
(Railway) Station Interlocking and Signaling |
| (TCTV 112) |
Public Safety Answering Point, number 112 (Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic) |
| (TP) |
Technical Conditions |
| (TRINS) |
Transport Information and Accident System - connected with transportation or storage of dangerous substances in the Czech Republic |
| (TTP) |
Track Bulletin |
| (ÚAMK ČR) |
Central Auto-Moto-Club of the Czech Republic |
| (VŠB-TU Ostrava) |
VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava |
| (ZDD) |
Rail Traffic Movement Documentation |
| (ZPI) |
Traffic Information Panels |
| (ZPK) |
Roads Act |
| (ZZS) |
Emergency Medical Services |
| AIS |
Automatic Identification System |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| ATO |
Automatic Train Operation |
Augmentation
- GBAS
- SBAS
- ABAS |
Various augmentation systems (methods) intended to improve the quality of the navigation system:
- Ground Based Augmentation Systems - GBAS
- Satellite Based Augmentation Systems - SBAS
- Airborne Based Augmentation Systems - ABAS |
| B/L |
Bill of Loading |
| CAN |
Controller Area Network |
| CCS |
Command Control and Signaling |
| CCTV |
Closed Circuit Television |
| CDV |
Transport Research Centre |
| CEF |
Connecting Europe Facility. It is one of the most important programs; it makes part of the EU financial framework for the years 2014-2020. The budget of this tool will support strategic projects in transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructure. |
| CEN |
European Committee for Standardization |
| CENELEC |
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization |
| CHMI |
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute |
| CIS JR |
National Timetable Information System |
| CISReal |
National Timetable Information System for Real Time |
| C-ITS |
Cooperative ITS |
| CR |
Conventional Rail |
| ČSD |
Czechoslovak State Railways. The company was established on 28 October 1918. It took over the part of the railway network of the former Imperial Austrian State Railways (kkStB) and Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) situated in the territory of the newly founded Czechoslovakia. From the early 1920s, private railways were being nationalized by law and integrated into the ČSD network. In the years 1927-1948 (excluding the period of the II World War), ČSD also operated a national bus transportation network. In 1949, all bus transport was transferred to the newly established Czechoslovak Automobile Transport (ČSAD). Č SD definitively ceased to exist on 31 December 1992. |
| DG CNECT |
Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology |
| DG ENTR |
Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry |
| DG MOVE |
Directorate General for Mobility and Transport |
| DG REGIO |
Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy |
DGPS
Satellite, e.g.:
- WAAS
- EGNOS
or
Ground-based, e.g.:
- CZEPOS |
Differential GPS receiving correction signal. A system of differential corrections providing improved accurancy of calculated GPS locations using a network of base stations, pseudolites and communications satellites. The aim is to ensure 100% signal integrity (which is, among others, important for automatic landing systems in air transport, where even a very short time with insufficient number of satellites to calculate the position of the plane can result in a disaster).
Name WAAS refers to the system (which uses geostationary satellites to broadcast the correction signal) in North America where it has been used for longer time. The name EGNOS refers to the same system in the territory of Europe. |
| DI |
Digital Infrastructure |
| DIS |
Dispatching System for Railway Traffic Control (former CTC system) |
| DI-SOS |
Motorway Information System for Emergency Calls |
| DME |
Distance Measuring Equipment - device mostly for aircraft use; it measures the slant range distance between an aircraft and a ground station. It is used for navigation on the track or for determining the distance of an aircraft on the approach to landing from an airport. |
| DoRIS |
Das Digitale Oberösterreichische Raum-Informations-System |
| DSRC |
Dedicated Short Range Communication |
| EAN |
European Article Number |
| EC |
European Commission. It is the EU’s executive body and it represents the interests of the Union as a whole, not the interests of individual member states. The term European Commission (and also Commission) refers to the College of Commissioners and also to the institution itself (group of Directorates General). It proposes legislation and policies, implements adopted policies (strategies), initiatives and EU programmes, and manages funds for these programmes. Along with the Court of Justice of the European Union, it enforces European law. Represents the EU in external affairs. It represents the EU in the foreign policy field. It includes various departments and services. The most important departments of the EC are Directorates-General which are similar to national ministries. |
| ECDIS |
Electronic Chart Display and Information System for Inland Navigation |
| EETS |
European Electronic Toll Service |
| EGNOS (see DGPS) |
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service |
| EIA |
Environmental Impact Assessment |
| ELWIS |
Elektronischen Wasserstraßen-Informationsservice |
| EP |
European Parliament |
| ERTICO - ITS Europe |
European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination Organisation |
| ERTMS |
European Rail Traffic Management System |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESIF |
European Structural and Investment Funds |
| ESO |
European Standardization Organization |
| ETCS |
European Train Control System |
| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| GLONASS |
Globalnaja Navigacionnaja Sputnikovaja Sistěma – system of the Russian army which is currently the only functional GNSS besides the GPS |
| GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System – a generic term used to refer to the GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou systems. |
| GPRS |
GSM Packet Radio Service |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System – global satellite positioning system operated by the U.S. Department of Defense. It provides location and time information anywhere on or near the Earth with 10 meters precision. In 2000, intentionally random errors stopped being added and since then the system has been massively used by civilians. Before the term GNSS was implemented, the term GPS was used in the same meaning as GNSS. |
| GSA |
European GNSS Agency. The EU regulation authority defending and representing all public interests related to the European GNSS programmes: Galileo and EGNOS. |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communication |
| GSM-R |
Global System for Mobile Communication – Railways |
| GUF |
Galileo User Forum |
| GVD |
Long Term Timetable (in graphic mode) |
| H2020 |
Horizon 2020 |
| HeERO |
Harmonized eCall European Pilot |
| HW |
Hardware |
| ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
| ICT |
Information and Communication Technologies |
| IDS |
Integrated Public Transport System |
| IDS-JMK |
Integrated Public Transport System of the South Moravian Region |
| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
| INEA |
Innovation & Networks Executive Agency. Unlike EU bodies and institutions, this EU agency is an independent legal entity established to perform specific tasks pursuant to EU legislation. INEA manages infrastructure and research programmes in the field of transport, energy sector and telecommunications. INEA started its activities on 1 January 2014 and it is the successor of the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA). |
| INSPIRE |
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community |
| IRS |
Integrated Rescue System - determined for coordination of rescue and clean-up operations in case, where a situation requires operation of forces and means of several emergency services, e.g. firefighters, police, medical rescue service and other emergency services. |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ITS&S |
Intelligent Transport Systems and Services |
| AP ITS |
Action Plan for the Deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the Czech Republic until 202 (with the Prospect of 2050) |
| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
| LTE |
Long Term Evolution |
| M2M |
Machine to Machine |
| MoT |
Ministry of Transport |
| NtS |
Notices to Skippers |
| NUTS |
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics |
| OBU |
On-Board Unit |
| OSS |
One Stop Shop |
| PBN |
Performance Based Navigation |
| PCR |
Police of the Czech Republic |
| PID |
Prague Integrated Public Transport |
| PP CR |
Police Presidium of the Czech Republic |
| PPS |
Precise Positioning Service. Non-public positioning service of the GPS system; available to the military of the USA and to their allies. It provides more accurate location data, it is resistant to jamming and encrypted. |
| PSI |
Public Sector Information Directive (the EU Directive on the re-use of public sector information) |
| RB |
Radioblock (Control and signaling system for regional/secondary railway lines) |
| RBC |
Radioblock Centre Office (and other technical facilities at the train dispatcher´s workplace) |
| RBV |
Radioblock On-Board Unit and Communication Facilities on the Railway Vehicle |
| RDS - TMC |
Radio Data System - Traffic Message Channel |
| RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
| RIS |
River Information Services |
| RIS3 |
Strategies for Smart Specialization (in the Czech Republic) |
| RNAV |
Area Navigation, also referred to as RNAV (Random Navigation). It is a method of navigation in instrument flight rules (IFR), which permits aircraft operation on any desired course within the coverage of ground-based or spatial navigation beacons, or within the limits of a self-contained system capability or a combination of these, rather than navigating directly to and from the ground-based navigation beacons. |
| RoRIS |
Sistemul de Informare si Management al Traficului pe Sectorul Romanesc al Dunarii |
| SDI |
Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| SEA |
Strategic Environmental Assessment |
| SESAR |
Single European Sky ATM Research |
| SlovRIS |
Slovak River Information Services |
| SPS |
Standard Positioning Service. Standard positioning services of the GPS system. It is available for public, neither its availability nor accuracy are guaranteed. |
| SSN |
SafeSeaNet |
| SW |
Software |
| TAF |
Telematic Applications for Freight Services |
| TAP |
Telematic Applications for Passenger Services |
| TEN-T |
Trans-European Transport Networks |
| TI |
Transport Infrastructure, Traffic Information |
| TIC |
Traffic Information Centre |
| TIC PCR (CDI) |
Traffic Information Centre of the Police of the Czech Republic |
| UNECE/ECE |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. One of the five UN Regional Commissions having its secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland |
| V2D |
Vehicle-to-Device Communication – data exchange between a vehicle and a device, i.e. mobile device or a PDA |
| V2G |
Vehicle‐to‐Grid Communication – data exchange between an electric vehicle and a smart power grid which allows to regulate the production and consumption of electricity |
| V2I |
Vehicle‐to‐Infrastructure Communication – data exchange between a vehicle and the infrastructure, i.e. equipment installed on the road infrastructure or in a traffic control centre |
| V2V |
Vehicle‐to‐Vehicle Communication – data exchange between vehicles |
| V2X |
Umbrella term for V2I, V2V, V2D and V2G |
| VMS |
Variable Message Signs |
| VTMIS |
Vessel Traffic Monitoring & Information Systems |
| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAAS (see DGPS) |
Wide Area Augmentation System |
| WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
| WGS 84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 – globally recognized geodetic standard issued by the United States Department of Defense in 1984; it defines the coordinate system and the reference ellipsoid for use in geodesy and navigation |
| WIM |
Weigh-in-Motion |